Space

Peak viewing season for the giant planets continues. Saturn is visible all night, at its best in the late evening. Jupiter rises later and dominates the early morning. Neptune reaches opposition near a 5th-magnitude star — grab binoculars to catch the best view of 2023. Uranus hovers between the Pleiades […]

Students from Georgia and Texas will have separate opportunities next week to hear from NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station.

An Australian company has released images showing how China constructed its Tiangong space station.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 13 Tranche 0 demonstration satellites for the U.S. military’s Space Development Agency (SDA). Liftoff from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California is scheduled for 7:26 a.m. PDT (10:26 a.m. EDT / 1426 UTC).

Jay Smith When Galileo Galilei pointed his first telescope to the heavens in 1610, he discovered “congeries of innumerable stars” hidden in the band of light called the Milky Way. Our cosmos grew exponentially that day. Roughly three centuries later, the cosmic bounds exploded once again when astronomers built telescopes […]

A team led by NASA in Utah’s West Desert is in the final stages of preparing for the arrival of the first U.S. asteroid sample – slated to land on Earth in September.

A flash of light on our solar system’s gas giant has alerted space enthusiasts of an intriguing impact

The Moon, Earth’s nearest celestial neighbor, has fascinated humanity for ages with its ever-changing phases. Each month, the Moon transitions through a series of distinct visual stages, providing a captivating and evolving spectacle in the night sky. But why do these phases occur, and how do specific phases of the […]

India’s Pragyan moon rover photographed its mothership, the Vikram lander, for the first time as the two continue their exploration halfway through the Chandrayaan-3 mission.

A tropical storm barreling towards the Florida peninsula caused United Launch Alliance (ULA) to stand down from an Atlas 5 launch planned for Tuesday on a mission for the National Reconnaissance Office.